Rights Radar calls for an international investigation into the crime of burning African refugees in Sana'a
English - Thursday 11 March 2021 الساعة 10:33 am
Aden, NewsYemen:
On Wednesday, Rights Radar called for an international investigation to uncover the circumstances of the horrific fire that killed a number of African refugees and wounded others in one of the detention centers of the Houthi militia in Sanaa.
The organization condemned, in tweets on its Twitter account, "the crime of burning a number of African refugees in a detention center in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, which is under the control of the Houthi armed group."
The organization called on the armed Houthi group, to clarify convincingly about what the African refugees were subjected to in custody, and to determine who bears responsibility for this unprecedented crime.
It is worth noting that the Houthi militia was accumulating large numbers of refugees in the detention center at the Immigration and Passports Authority, to blackmail their families by paying huge sums in exchange for not deporting them and removing them from detention.
The sources revealed that, after hundreds of immigrants protested due to the dire situation in which they were living in custody, the detention warden had to summon security forces to suppress the detainees, while the security forces threw bombs into the detainees' ward, which led to a fire. Because there were materials that helped ignite the fires.
